About
Award-winning restaurant on the Isle of Wight
The Royal’s Geranium Restaurant is an award-winning island restaurant where artistry, seasonality, and flavour come together in perfect balance. Each dish is a celebration of local ingredients, meticulously crafted to reflect the island’s natural beauty and heritage.
Why you will love your Royal dining experience
Food lovers are in for a true treat at The Royal’s Geranium Restaurant, where exquisite dishes celebrate the Isle of Wight in a relaxed 5 star setting, blending local ingredients and warm hospitality to create a memorable dining experience that captures the island's unique charm and coastal elegance.
Island first
Head Chef Jacob Gough curates a season-led tribute to the Isle of Wight. Artisan cheeses, coastal herbs, and line-caught fish.
A beautiful experience
A relaxed atmosphere in a grand dining room, thoughtful service and unforgettable cuisine.
Proven quality
The restaurant has been awarded 2 AA Rosettes for 30+ years and a 5 Star AA score for Service and Hospitality in 2025.
What to expect at The Royal's Geranium Restaurant
A majestic dining room, season-led menus of precision and poise, and service that is attentive, unhurried, and exacting. Three times winner in Beautiful South’s Restaurant of the Year, expect confident cooking, distinguished pairings, and the Isle of Wight at its most exquisite, delivered with quiet grandeur.
Fine dining
Expect immaculately composed plates, impeccably attentive service, and a grand atmosphere. The menus evolve with the island’s finest seasonal ingredients, offering fresh pleasures throughout the year, yet one tradition endures: the Gallybagger soufflé, The Royal's celebrated signature featured in BBC's Good Food, cherished by guests for 30 years.
The Royal Afternoon Tea
A tiered indulgence of finger sandwiches, just-baked scones with Dorset clotted cream, elegant cakes and patisseries. Paired with your choice of tea or espresso coffee, with Champagne available to crown the occasion.
Often called the home of Afternoon Tea, the nationwide tradition was popularised here first by Queen Victoria who visited often from 1845.
Booking note: Please book Afternoon Tea with at least 24 hours notice.
Relaxed lunch
Lunch at The Royal is easy going and beautifully sunlit in the conservatory. Enjoy a relaxed service with vibrant light bites, sandwiches or generous full plates, poured alongside a fresh espresso-based coffee, well-chosen glass of wine or perhaps a carefully mixed cocktail. Settle in for something simple and satisfying, or make it a little occasion. Walk-ins welcome.
Sunday lunch
Bring your appetite (and your favourite people). Begin with a feather-light Gallybagger cheese soufflé, then tuck into perfectly cooked roast sirloin beef with towering Yorkshire pudding, and crisp roast potatoes, then treat yourself to dark chocolate delice. A Sunday well spent.
Ready to book?
Reserve your table at The Royal and let us take care of the rest. Call 01983 852186 or book online - https://royalhoteliow.co.uk/book-table
Winter opening hours
- Breakfast: 7.45am - 9.45am | Daily
- Lunch: 12.00pm - 3.00pm | Wed - Sat
- Sunday Lunch: 12.30pm - 2.15pm | Sun
- Afternoon Tea: 3.00pm - 5.00pm | Wed-Sun
- Dinner: 6.15pm - 8.30pm | Daily
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Beautiful South Awards Winners 2022/23 - Bronze 2022
Beautiful South Awards Winners 2023/24 - Silver 2023
Beautiful South Awards Winner 2024/25 - Silver 2025
AA 2 Rosettes for Culinary Excellence 2025
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